Glucosamine supplements

Re: Glucosamine supplements

Vicky RVN — Fri, 23 Dec 2011 21:06:14 GMT

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yeah we have synoquin but its real expensive in our place, people wont pay for it and they wont try on mobility or j/d! its a nuisance! thanks for the replys though! xx

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they must have a pretty lame excuse for refusing to try a food like j/d or mobility? Surely giving a food without the need for tablets is easier (and cheaper?)

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Well in my opinion, i'd rarher keep my animals on the diet they're happy with an supplement. I've found a diet that suits Jack, so i'm not going to change him from it.

Re: Glucosamine supplements

Shelly vn — Fri, 23 Dec 2011 15:27:12 GMT

As far as i can see the diets such as j/d and mobility contain fish oils and green lipped mussel to help the joints. so i started giving my boys one green lipped mussel capsule a day from the health food shop and its worked wonders. So much cheaper than the diets and the same effect! I guess thats why i find it hard to sell the diets to clients

Re: Glucosamine supplements

Emma Bartlett — Wed, 21 Dec 2011 19:45:19 GMT

[quote user="Princess Ophelia Hermione MacBeth"]YU Move has proved to be fab so far. I am very pleased with the results but I do keep meaning to check out pharmacies for the human equivalent as I still think YU Move is expensive when you have several senior dogs (and lots of other drugs to pay for each month - tramadol, metacam, vivitonin, akitivait...)[/quote]

I have my 2 senior rotties and SBT X on it.....expensive but i am also pleased with the results!

Re: Glucosamine supplements

Louise B — Wed, 21 Dec 2011 19:21:29 GMT

[quote user="SmegSlayer"]

[quote user="Ding"]

yeah we have synoquin but its real expensive in our place, people wont pay for it and they wont try on mobility or j/d! its a nuisance! thanks for the replys though! xx

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they must have a pretty lame excuse for refusing to try a food like j/d or mobility? Surely giving a food without the need for tablets is easier (and cheaper?)

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It works out much more expensive to feed j/d than most regular brands of food. I have just checked out a 12kg sack of j/d and, based on the online pharmacy price, a sack costs £53. This would last my two seniors (25kg & 10kg) about 30 days.

I currently pay £12 - 15 for a 15kg sack of food. This will last them a similar period of time. I then supplement with high strength cod liver oil (1 human capsule daily split between 3 dogs & 2 cats) (cost: approximately £1.50 per month) and YU Move 300 tablets/pot @ £35/pot) (2 tablets for the 25kg dog, 1 for the 10kg dog = c£12/month). Total cost £15 + 1.50 + 12.00 = £28.50/month. The supplements just get mixed in with their food.

YU Move has proved to be fab so far. I am very pleased with the results but I do keep meaning to check out pharmacies for the human equivalent as I still think YU Move is expensive when you have several senior dogs (and lots of other drugs to pay for each month - tramadol, metacam, vivitonin, akitivait...)

Re: Glucosamine supplements

Nicola Smith — Sat, 17 Dec 2011 11:46:16 GMT

I have swapped my cat to Lintbells for the green lipped mussel aspect as cosequin not hitting the spot, only been a couple of weeks so far so cant say if worked or not. They are very helpful but they advised me to use the human i-move one as my cat has renal issues and the yumove one contains phosphate. Useful to know.

Re: Glucosamine supplements

Emma Bartlett — Thu, 15 Dec 2011 11:38:42 GMT

[quote user="funkyfish"]Ymmove is a fab product! Loads of agility people use it and say it's good. Reasonably priced as well. Spoke to the people from lintbells at BVNA congress and they can do a lunch n learn for the practice.

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They are very helpful at Lintbells. I heard good things from agility people too and i have been very pleased with my own dogs response

Re: Glucosamine supplements

melanie percival — Thu, 15 Dec 2011 10:20:40 GMT

We used Nutraquin at my last practice. Not sure if you can order it from your supplier though because we used to order it from their website. Its cheaper than products such as synoquin.

Re: Glucosamine supplements

funkyfish — Thu, 15 Dec 2011 10:04:13 GMT

Ymmove is a fab product! Loads of agility people use it and say it's good. Reasonably priced as well. Spoke to the people from lintbells at BVNA congress and they can do a lunch n learn for the practice.

Re: Glucosamine supplements

Emma Bartlett — Wed, 14 Dec 2011 22:32:16 GMT

I use Yumove for my dogs

http://www.lintbells.com/products/yumove

Re: Glucosamine supplements

Laura Rosewell DipAVN RVN MBVNA — Wed, 14 Dec 2011 21:55:20 GMT

One thing that I have been told is that the Veterinary joint supplements have Glucosamine Hydrochloride in as opposed to glucosamine sulphate. The sulphate tends to be in the cheaper products, and is a larger molecule which isn't absorbed as well as the hydrochloride and is therefore less effective.

We only opened on friday and are currently stocking seraquin and nutradyl. We're finding it hard to shift the nutradyl as it is on the expensive side though. I have recommended seraquin in clinics for years and always had good feedback from clients.

Re: Glucosamine supplements

Vicky RVN — Sun, 30 Oct 2011 08:20:09 GMT

I've been thinking i'll put Jack on a glucosamine/chondrotin supplement now, he's only 4 but I figure it won't do any harm to keep his joints in tip top condition. But there are so many to choose from!

Re: Glucosamine supplements

Claire Cameron — Sun, 14 Mar 2010 10:57:50 GMT

I use EaseFlex with my muttleys just take it like a treat.

Re: Glucosamine supplements

SmegSlayer — Fri, 12 Mar 2010 23:38:59 GMT

[quote user="Ding"]

yeah we have synoquin but its real expensive in our place, people wont pay for it and they wont try on mobility or j/d! its a nuisance! thanks for the replys though! xx

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they must have a pretty lame excuse for refusing to try a food like j/d or mobility? Surely giving a food without the need for tablets is easier (and cheaper?)

Re: Glucosamine supplements

Steph Phillips — Fri, 12 Mar 2010 23:32:57 GMT

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[quote user="Nick Shackleton"]

http://www.hollandandbarrett.com/pages/product_detail.asp?pid=697&prodid=740

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I was told once - my whom or when I can't remember, but well before holland & barrett stocked pet glucosamine, that you have to be careful with health shop glucosamine for pets because one of the ingrediants that was fine for humans wasn't for pets - may have been the salt levels....or not... my memory is rubbish!

useless post really coz I con't remember anything concrete!

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Yes i heard that too at a CPD meeting years ago.. I remember it was something to do with the salt.. but can't for the life of me remember anything else! lol

Re: Glucosamine supplements

Phrin Vernon RVN — Fri, 12 Mar 2010 22:12:11 GMT

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http://www.hollandandbarrett.com/pages/product_detail.asp?pid=697&prodid=740

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useless post really coz I con't remember anything concrete!

Re: Glucosamine supplements

Busy bee — Fri, 12 Mar 2010 20:34:47 GMT

Sorry I only said Newmarket (not very helpful!) - its Newmarket premixes - i can get you number from work tomorrow if anyone interested

Re: Glucosamine supplements

Busy bee — Fri, 12 Mar 2010 20:32:35 GMT

We order our glucosamine supp from Newmarket - they supply it for horses but they have small animal powder too and it is well tolerated mixed in with food We have also had good feedback from J/D food too.

Re: Glucosamine supplements

Kim Buckley — Fri, 12 Mar 2010 18:58:12 GMT

There was a leaflet floating round at work about being careful with some glucosamine products because they are quite good at lying on the labels. Will have to find it next week and have a read through it.

Re: Glucosamine supplements

Heidi O'Toole — Fri, 12 Mar 2010 18:53:34 GMT

[quote user="Nick Shackleton"]

http://www.hollandandbarrett.com/pages/product_detail.asp?pid=697&prodid=740

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exactly what i was looking for! Thanks!

Re: Glucosamine supplements

Nick Shackleton — Fri, 12 Mar 2010 18:43:21 GMT

http://www.hollandandbarrett.com/pages/product_detail.asp?pid=697&prodid=740

Re: Glucosamine supplements

Cat Woman — Fri, 12 Mar 2010 17:57:03 GMT

We have started using seraquin. Seems more reasonably priced than cosequin/synoquin.

Re: Glucosamine supplements

Sal the 1st — Fri, 12 Mar 2010 17:49:44 GMT

i have used glycoflex with two of my cats - and was happy with the results

Re: Glucosamine supplements

Lofty343 — Fri, 12 Mar 2010 17:45:39 GMT

We use Glycoflex, synoqiun and also nutraquin which is fairly new supplement. I think synoqiun and nutraquin also help reduce inflammation? Could be wrong on that one tho! ;-)

Re: Glucosamine supplements

Jen — Fri, 12 Mar 2010 17:34:54 GMT

What about Nutradyl? Is a little bit on the cheaper side, I have used it recently for a couple of dogs (owners cant afford Cosequin/Synoquin) and they have noticed a big difference within 2 weeks.

Re: Glucosamine supplements

Heidi O'Toole — Fri, 12 Mar 2010 14:06:46 GMT

yeah we have synoquin but its real expensive in our place, people wont pay for it and they wont try on mobility or j/d! its a nuisance! thanks for the replys though! xx